Mortgages

Accord cuts higher LTV rates

Accord Mortgages is cutting a number of rates across its 85% and 90% loan...

Countrywide Surveying Services launches energy efficiency report

Countrywide Surveying Services has launched EnergyFact, a report designed to help homeowners assess the energy...

MBT reveals top residential lenders for affordability

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has used the two million searches processed through the MBT Affordability...

Meridian Mortgages to acquire Metro Finance with MAB support

Meridian Mortgages has acquired specialist shared ownership broker firm, Metro Finance. The strategic acquisition sees...

TSB to offer 95% LTV mortgages next month 

TSB Bank has become to the latest lender to signal a 95% loan to...

Richard Tugwell to replace Louisa Sedgwick at Vida

Vida has announced that Richard Tugwell is to become its next director of mortgage...

Over 4,000 ‘webcasts’ held with Accord over past week

A year after launching in response to the lockdown, Accord Mortgages has reported its...

Virgin cuts residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates

Virgin Money has made a series of rate reductions across its residential and buy-to-let...

‘Furlough-friendly’ mortgages top criteria searches

Legal & General has reported that mortgage brokers were sourcing furlough-friendly mortgages more than...

The Skipton rejoins 95% LTV mortgage lending space

The Skipton Building Society has launched two new deals as it  re-enters the 95% mortgage...

Lenders continue to tighten self-employed criteria

There was a fall in February in the number of cases where at least...

Legal & General Mortgage Club unveils exclusives

Legal & General Mortgage Club has introduced new exclusive products from the Buckinghamshire Building...

3mc offers exclusive Dudley BS shared ownership deal

3mc is to market an exclusive Heylo shared ownership product designed in partnership with...

MPowered Mortgages launches into buy-to-let market

MQube has launched MPowered, a platform it says it has developed two better serve mortgage...

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AMI Protection Viewpoint 2025: Turning challenges into opportunities

Delivering better outcomes and protecting more customers is all in a day’s work for protection advisers. But in today’s fast-paced, constantly evolving environment, navigating...

Private credit poses challenges and opportunities for UK CROs

The global financial crash of 2008 revealed the dangers of financial contagion. What began as a collapse in the United States sub-prime mortgage market...

GIS must be at the heart of place-based policymaking

The UK is under increasing pressure to deliver more homes, strengthen national infrastructure, and meet ambitious environmental goals – from the New Towns Taskforce...

The PT is dead. Long live the broker!

Did you know that every time a borrower approaches their bank directly, a mortgage broker dies? I’m teasing, of course. They don’t really die....

Landlords defy the doom – the buy-to-let bounce-back

While the Bank of England recently voted to hold the interest rate at 4%, which will have been disappointing news to landlords who had...

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TRM launches tool to help advisers assess clients’ financial shortfalls

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has introduced a Shortfall Needs Analysis Calculator designed...

HTB completes £1.1m Midlands refinancing in four hours

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a £1.1m residential investment refinancing in the Midlands...

Brookfield Surveyors joins BDLA as associate member

Brookfield Surveyors has become an associate member of the Bridging and Development Lenders Association...

Shawbrook backs 42-home London scheme with £13m development facility

Shawbrook has partnered with P10 Financial Group to provide a £13m development facility that...

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